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2004 AUG 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers describe technologies that increase the safety of vaccine administration in a recent issue of Vaccine.
According to recent research from Switzerland, "There is an ever-expanding technology that is aimed at making the administration of vaccines safer. Conventional ways of administering vaccines are being upgraded, modified or replaced by a wide variety of innovations. The paradigm of liquid vaccines, needles, and syringes is slow to change, but already developments are occurring that will change for ever the way vaccines are administered and will improve the safety record of immunization."
"The oral route of vaccine administration has generally been thought of as safe, but until now only the polio vaccine has been widely used in this way," said C. John Clements and colleagues at the World Health Organization. "The conventional method of vaccine administration is by injection. Many ingenious devices have become available that now make injecting safer. Inventors are now looking imaginatively to alternative routes and technologies for delivering vaccines. Vaccines are generally manufactured to extremely high standards and rarely are shown to be the cause of safety issues. People remain the weakest safety link is vaccine administration."
"Technologies that ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Technologies to increase safety of vaccine administration described.